ANTIPROHIBITIONIST OF THE ENTIRE WORLD ....
Year 5 #19, May 17 1999
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Weekly Action Report on Drug Policies
Edited by the CORA - Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination, federated to
- TRP-Transnational Radical Party (NGO, consultive status, I)
- The Global Coalition for Alternatives to the Drug War
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000604 11/05/99
E.U. / ITALY
CONSUMERS
LA REPUBBLICA
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A research by the Psychology dept. in the University of Padova shows that young people frequently use drugs before sexual intercourse. After using drugs 68.9% of them feel uninhibited, 46.8% feel at ease with their partner, 19.2% feel more seducing and 17% feel outright desirable.
000607 05/05/99
E.U. / FRANCE
HEALTH
LE FIGARO
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Professor Roger Herion, President of the Observatoir francais des drogues et des toxicomanies, contributes to the debate on whether alcohol should be considered a drug. He says that effective prevention should spur from a global approach to the problem of psycho active substances, among which there is also alcohol. 20% of those who turn to a doctor for problems related to alcohol consumption are intoxicated.
000606 06/05/99
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INITIATIVE
LE FIGARO
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The World Health Organisation says that controlled distribution of heroin plans on the model of the Swiss one could be put into practice only in rich countries and only under severe monitoring.
000605 05/05/99
E.U. / FRANCE
JURISPRUDENCE
LIBERATION
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Appeal trial against the CIRC (an information and research collective on cannabis) far having organised an unauthorised demonstration against article 630 on the use of light drugs. The sentence has been programmed for the 27th of May.
000612 10/05/99
E.U. / GERMANY
MARKET
SUEDDEUTSCHE Z.
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It seems that 'liquid ecstasy' has disappeared from the market. This drinkable form of ecstasy appeared in discos over a year ago and was immediatly signalles by experts as being very dangerous.
000608 06/05/99
E.U. / ITALY
PUSHERS
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
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An employee of the law court of Rome and another man have been arrested for the disappearing of 18 kilos of drugs from a safe where the court kept material evidence of crimes. The men were the only ones to have easy access to the safe.
000613 11/05/99
E.U. / IRELAND
PUSHERS
THE TIMES
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Brendan Fegan, one of Northern Ireland's biggest drug pushers, who had been repeatedly told by the IRA to leave the region, has been found dead with several bullets in his head. The clandestine republican army is suspected of this crime.
000609 07/05/99
AMERICA / MEXICO
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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Former Governor Mario Villanueva, who is wanted for having helped various drug taffickers, is probably one of the bosses of the Juarez drug cartel. This is a news release of the Mexican Anti Drug Agency.
000610 07/05/99
AMERICA / USA
WAR ON DRUGS
HERALD TRIBUNE
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The Government has decided to suspend all selling of guns and pistols to Venezuela because it discovered they were ending up in the hands of the guerrilla and of the Colombian drug traffickers.
000611 06/05/99
AMERICA / PANAMA
WAR ON DRUGS
FINANCIAL TIMES
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The USA has stopped its anti drug mission in Panama because it seems to have obtained considerable success in reducing drug traffic. Nontheless criticism still is arriving from Congress. The situation would be dangerous, with 80% of the drug traffic towards the United States still passing through Panama.
